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- 4Linguistics
- 3Bilingualism
- 3Language acquisition
- 3Second language acquisition
- 2Eye-tracking
- 1Chappell, Eric.
- 1Coles, Janice
- 1Hammer, Petra
- 1Hammond-Thrasher, Stephanie J
- 1Hannah, David Allan
- 1Ilott, Helen G.
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Spring 2016
Background. Stuttered speech (e.g., th-ththth-th-ththth-the car) and typical disfluencies (e.g., thee uh car) have some similarities. Previous research describes a tendency in listeners to predict that a speaker will refer to an unfamiliar object, rather than a familiar one, when both are equally...
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Emergence of wordlikeness in the mental lexicon: Language, population, and task effects in visual word recognition
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Various aspects of our higher-level cognition affect the buttom-up information uptake in perception of objects, faces, and scenes. Such interplay between new information and existing information in our memory can be seen also in rapid visual word recognition. Lexical processing architectures...
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Spring 2023
As we listen to spoken language, the brain performs multiple levels of computation, from understanding individual words to comprehending the arc of a story. Recently, computational models have been developed that also process text on multiple levels. These models, called multi-timescale long...
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Gender and dominance in action: World view and emotional affect in language processing and use
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This dissertation examines the association between the emotional dominance of verbs and the perception, or inference, of character gender. In the context of this dissertation, emotional dominance is described as the perceived level of power, or control, exerted by a verb. I hypothesize that when...